I have been fortunate to work with Dr. Art Shapiro from the University of California, Davis, who has been observing butterflies across an altitudinal transect in Northern California for four decades. Much has changed in the butterfly fauna in that time, and I'll describe what we've learned about the influence of climate and development on the butterfly populations.

This presentation is part of the Sierra College Natural History Museum’s 2014-2015 lecture series, and will be held in Sewell Hall, room 111. Tickets are available at the door. Prices are General $5 / Students and Seniors $2 / Museum members free. All proceeds benefit the Sierra College Natural History Museum.

The Sierra College Rocklin Campus is located at 5000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin. Parking on campus is FREE on the weekends from Friday at 4pm through Sunday. For more information, call the Sierra College Natural History Museum at 916-660-7926.

Fri, 15 May 2015 19:30:00 PDThttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/05/nhm-speaker-butterflies.phpAuthurian Legends: The Holy Grailhttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/05/tt-insights-holy-grail.php
Explore medieval tales with Dr. Phil Boardman, literature and humanities specialist and professor. The lecture begins at 7:00 pm, but get there early, at 6:30 for refreshments and socializing. Optional donations serve as an honorarium to the speaker, but there is no admittance fee. RSVP at: http://sierracollege.ticketleap.com. Check out the website at www.sierracollege.edu/tt. The Tahoe-Truckee Campus is located at 11001 College Trail, Truckee CA 96161. The lecture is free and we do not charge for parking from 4:00 PM on Friday to 11:00 PM on Sunday.Fri, 08 May 2015 19:00:00 PDThttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/05/tt-insights-holy-grail.phpPolitical Awareness Dayhttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/pol-awareness.php

The Rocklin Campus Political Science Club will host Political Awareness Day on Wednesday, April 29th, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. An information fair will be located on the Quad.

The Sierra College Political Science Club encourages us all to get involved in our school, our community, our state and our country.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.Barack Obama

Sparks will fly at the Sierra College Weld Expo 2015! (We'll have masks for your protection) This exciting event will offer:

Free Admission

A HUGE vendor show

Virtual welding demonstrations

Lectures and demonstrations

Sierra College Auto Club Open Car Show

And most exciting of all, the Sierra College Welding Technology Mobile Welding Training Center!

Helping to sponsor the Weld Expo are great vendors like:

Miller

Harris Industrial Gases

Airgas

Fresno Barns

Del Paso Pipe and Steel

P.G.E.

Sat, 18 April 2015 09:00:00 PDThttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/weld-expo-15.phpBotany and Geology of the Castle Peak Area at Donner Summithttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/nhm-speaker-castle.php

The Castle Peak area (Tahoe National Forest) provides ready access to remarkable botanical diversity and wildflower abundance, making it an especially good place to learn Sierran flora. The Miocene volcanic history of the area is manifested in many landscape features which also help to account for the rich flora. The lecture will concentrate on the Castle Peak area, but we will also visit other readily accessible sites in or near Donner Pass, and some older rocks, which, all together, make the area a marvelous geologic classroom.

This presentation is part of the Sierra College Natural History Museum’s 2014-2015 lecture series, and will be held in Sewell Hall, room 111. Tickets are available at the door. Prices are General $5 / Students and Seniors $2 / Museum members free. All proceeds benefit the Sierra College Natural History Museum.

The Sierra College Rocklin Campus is located at 5000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin. Parking on campus is FREE on the weekends from Friday at 4pm through Sunday. For more information, call the Sierra College Natural History Museum at 916-660-7926.

Fri, 17 April 2015 19:30:00 PDThttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/nhm-speaker-castle.phpStrange Faces: Lon Chaney, Ethics of Horrorhttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/tt-insights-lon-chaney.php
Dr. Katherine Fusco, English professor, discusses Lon Chaney, The Man of a Thousand Faces. The lecture begins at 7:00 pm, but get there early, at 6:30 for refreshments and socializing. Optional donations serve as an honorarium to the speaker, but there is no admittance fee. RSVP at: http://sierracollege.ticketleap.com . Check out the website at www.sierracollege.edu/tt . The Tahoe-Truckee Campus is located at 11001 College Trail, Truckee CA 96161. The lecture is free and we do not charge for parking from 4:00 PM on Friday to 11:00 PM on Sunday.Fri, 10 April 2015 19:00:00 PDThttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/tt-insights-lon-chaney.phpArt Talk with Sergei Isupovhttp://www.sierracollege.edu/events/upcoming/2015/04/art-talk-sergei-isupov.php

The Rocklin Campus Art Department is proud to present ceramicist artist, Sergei Isupov on Tuesday, April 7 at 12:30 in Weaver Hall, Room 110. This lecture/presentation is made possible as part of the Susan Cooley-Gilliom Artist in Residence and Teaching (ART) Program through the Placer Community Foundation and in partnership with Blue Line Galleries. Mr. Isupov will speak to art students, faculty and the interested public about his art and process. All are welcome to this free presentation.

About the Artist: Sergei Isupov is internationally renowned for his meticulous, surreal, figurative sculpture. Born in the Ukraine, Isupov studied art at universities in Kiev and Estonia before immigrating to the United States in the early 1990s. His work is in museum collections around the globe, and he lectures and gives workshops world-wide. Isupov now resides in Massachusetts, and is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

Isupov’s sculptures display an uninhibited celebration of imagination, human relationship, personal mythology, and free-form narrative. Painted images of the human form drape over, wrap around, meld with, and become a part of the surface of the sculpture, which is itself in the shape of a human form. The layered imagery is ripe with layers of meaning, conveying human pathos, tenderness, ambiguity, and humor. With jaw-dropping attention to detail, his work plays with themes of raw sexuality and the playful and delicate connections in all kinds of human relationships. His methods are meticulous but have nothing to do with realism. His forms and style are relegated to the odd and colorful world of dreams and memory. His means of communication are non-apologetic and arresting, and convey an intimate, personal and dramatic display of what could best be described as enthusiasm.